Photo Tutorials | Schenectady Photographic Society

How to remove harsh shadows from a face in Photoshop

I’m going to show you how to remove a shadow from a face inside of Photoshop. Look at this photo and you can see the light coming through the chains and it makes it look like…

Change day to night in Camera Raw, lighting photos in Photoshop.

I am showing you the steps here, because this is a hands on style of edit, you should really watch the video above first. Begin with this photo that I grabbed from Adobe Stock. 1.…

How to make a sunset or sunrise in Photoshop with lighting effects

You can apply this technique to any photo. You can use an overcast day, to add a sunrise or sunset, or you can use a photos where the sunrise didn’t quite hit and really make…

How to Match colors between photos in Photoshop

Hey CAFE Crew, You know what can be difficult? When you combine photos in Photoshop, (also known as photo compositing) the different photos often don’t match. The colors and tones are different and it makes…

How to Make a Panoramic photo – shoot and edit a Pano in Lightroom or Photoshop

Why Panoramas? Panoramas, or panos are a great way to do a couple of things. First of all, they make it possible to photograph a subject that is too big to fit in a…

How to edit a photo taken in direct sunlight in Lightroom or Photoshop ACR

So, for those other photos, here is a tutorial to get the most out of them. Fortunately if you shoot RAW and use either Lightroom or the Camera Raw filter in Photoshop (they have…

How to get perfectly smooth edges on cutouts of people in Photoshop

We will be using Channels and well as dodging and burning to create our mask. This type of cutout is sometimes called a channel pull, although many channel pulls just use levels and don’t…

Realistic background blur in Photoshop 2020 with Lens Blur

How this works: We will isolate, foreground, mid-ground and background in the photograph, by making selections and copying to new layers. We will fill foreground elements with darker gray, while the background elements will…